deportment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
deportment
    n 1: (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward
         other people [syn: {demeanor}, {demeanour}, {behavior},
         {behaviour}, {conduct}, {deportment}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deportment \De*port"ment\, n. [F. d['e]portement misconduct,
   OF., demeanor. See {Deport}.]
   Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of
   acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with
   respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior;
   demeanor; bearing.
   [1913 Webster]

         The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through
         many difficulties.                       --Swift.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "deportment":
      action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air,
      bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm,
      behavioral science, carriage, comportment, conduct,
      culture pattern, custom, demeanor, doing, doings, folkway,
      gestures, goings-on, guise, maintien, manner, manners, method,
      methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements,
      moves, observable behavior, pattern, poise, port, pose, posture,
      practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, set,
      social science, style, tactics, tone, way, way of life, ways

    

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